The EFi-X™ Users Forums provide a place for former users of the EFi-X hardware dongle to congregate and keep their Mac OS X “hackintosh” systems running without the stupid thing. Useful for general OS X hackintosh information as well.
SlipCover creates very nice icons, targeted at media files, by merging an image (say, a movie poster) with a template (such as a DVD case). Very nice results, freeware, and extensible. Cool, Mac OS X only.
Mac OS X Hints has a nice post about various methods of ripping just the audio from DVDs on the Mac. I’ve done this for a while using other methods — sounds like it’s much simpler now.
Ninite lets you set up multiple Windows applications at one time. Useful for installing the stuff I add to my work PCs.
UPDATE: AllMyApps.com looks like another interesting option.
AppleTV & More has an intriguing patchstick product that claims there is “no need to re-create your Patchstick and re-patch after an update.” It leverages a lot of AppleTV plugins and scripts via a menu-driven interface on the AppleTV itself. A lifetime subscription to all updates is $70; I wonder if this is worth it?
AppleTV & More has an intriguing patchstick product that claims there is “no need to re-create your Patchstick and re-patch after an update.” It leverages a lot of AppleTV plugins and scripts via a menu-driven interface on the AppleTV itself. A lifetime subscription to all updates is $70; I wonder if this is worth it?
myHack is a little utility to help install Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) onto vanilla PC hardware. This might finally make it relatively easy to build and deploy a Hackintosh.
Lifehacker has updated their Hackintosh guide with a very easy way to install Snow Leopard. Mad props to all the folks doing this hard work. I may bite the bullet soon and just build one…
For those times I forget, here’s the commands necessary to kill a “stuck” screen saver under Mac OS X:
ps -ax | grep ScreenSaver
kill [processID]
Exploded is a cool online store to get T-shirts and posters with hand-drawn “exploded” views of iconic tech gadgets like a Mac 128K, iPhone, Atari 2600, or bookbox. Great gift idea for geeks!